In the past, I looked at the problem of veteran suicides, at the risk that concussions can cause degenerative brain disease, and at a brilliant Army major who found himself slowly losing his mind after his return home.
There are many new government initiatives to address the problem of veteran unemployment including the VOW- Veterans Opportunity to Work Act introduced to the house by Republican VA Committee Chairman Jeff Miller of Florida.
Many of our political leaders agree that we, as a country, must address the problem of veteran unemployment, but executing on that idea takes a lot more than speeches.
Instead, Buss has been given a seminar on the problems of veterans in the N.B.A., one being conducted by his players.
At the state level, special courts to deal with the problems of veterans are being formed across the nation, modeled on the special courts to deal with drug and mental health issues.
The study, aimed at examining lingering problems of veterans returning from both conflicts, also called into question a Defense Department policy which bans restricting access to private weapons "even if a service member is at risk from suicide".
Mullen and his wife, Deoborah, were on NPR yesterday, talking about the problem of returning veterans killing themselves.
Not only does a historian have to deal with the normal problem of a veteran looking back over years or decades recalling events as he or she would have liked them to have been, but in some cases outright malice was involved.
She said the study was the first to look into the links between killing and the mental health problems of Iraq veterans.
Decades of studies on the problems of Vietnam veterans have established links between combat trauma and higher rates of unemployment, homelessness, gun ownership, child abuse, domestic violence, substance abuse — and criminality.
